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“Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 85302503f93cacb08488436818d616bb9479e7f39ad8415f527da1bdc6057323
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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